“…In general, the outcome of this study supports previous studies on the benefits of PBL in engineering education regarding students' positive attitude, interest, confidence, and competences in learning engineering (Kolmos, 2017). In particular, it provides further evidence supporting the understanding that PBL would be an effective teaching and learning method for civil engineering (Ahern, 2010;Beagon, Niall & Fhloinn, 2019;Hezmi, et al, 2017;Murray, Hendry & McQuade, 2019;Shekhar & Borrego, 2017). In our recent studies on implementing PBL in civil engineering courses at the same institution, we noted that while engineering students increased their deep approach to learning through a PBL course, their surface approach to learning remained unchanged (Du, Ebead, Sabah, Ma, & Naji, 2019).…”